Standard Spray Booth

The Standard Spray Booth is an entry-level powder coating booth built for small workshops, start-up custom shops, and maintenance departments that need a contained finishing space without the footprint or electrical service of a full production line. At 6 x 6 x 8 feet (1.8 x 1.8 x 2.4 m) of working volume and 2,000 CFM (3,400 m3/h) of cartridge-filtered airflow, it gives you a clean, controlled environment to apply powder, recover overspray, and keep contamination off the part. It runs on standard 220V single-phase power, so most shops can install it against an existing wall circuit and start coating the same week.

Working envelope and airflow

The 6 x 6 x 8 ft cabin comfortably handles parts up to roughly small gates, brackets, wheels, frames, and panels that fit a single operator working by hand. The 2,000 CFM draw pulls airborne powder away from the operator and toward the four-cartridge filter bank at the back wall, holding face velocity high enough to capture overspray while keeping the cloud stable around the part. That airflow target is deliberate for this size class: enough to contain and recover powder cleanly, low enough that a 220V single-phase fan and motor cover it. You get visible, repeatable powder behavior without the make-up air handling, ducting, and three-phase service that larger booths demand.

Four-cartridge recovery and filtration

Four cartridge filters do the recovery work, trapping oversprayed powder and keeping the discharge air clean enough to recirculate inside the shop in most setups. Cartridges are the practical choice at this scale: they pack a large filter surface into a compact housing, pulse or shake clean between jobs, and swap out in minutes when a cartridge finally loads up. For a single-color or low-changeover operation, this keeps consumable cost predictable and downtime short. If you run reclaim, the cartridge bank is where recovered powder collects for sieving and reuse, which is where the real material savings on a small booth come from over a year of production.

Operation and color changes

This booth is built to be run by one operator with a manual spray gun. Start the fan, confirm airflow, ground the part, and coat: the contained cabin and steady 2,000 CFM draw keep the working cloud consistent shot to shot, which matters most when you are dialing in film build by eye. Because it is a four-cartridge open booth rather than a quick-change cartridge module, it favors shops that stay on one color or batch their colors and accept a manual blow-down and wipe-out between changes. For an entry-level shop running a handful of finishes, that trade is the right one: lower up-front cost in exchange for a deliberate color-change routine.

Power, install, and integration

Running on 220V single-phase means this booth drops into most workshops without a new service panel or three-phase feed, which is a large part of why it suits start-ups and low-volume shops. Pair it with a manual powder spray gun and a small powder feed center for a complete, ready-to-coat front end. On the cure side, it feeds naturally into a batch curing oven sized to the same class of parts. If you are weighing what a small line actually costs to assemble versus a six-figure production system, our guide on Powder Coating Line Cost: What $50K, $500K, and $2M Systems Actually Include breaks down where the money goes at each tier so you can budget the booth, gun, and oven as one package.

Where it fits in your line

In a finishing workflow, the Standard Spray Booth sits at the application stage, downstream of pretreatment and part hang, upstream of cure. A typical small-shop sequence is clean and pretreat, hang or rack the part, apply powder in this booth with a PowCEQ spray gun fed from a powder feed center, then transfer to a curing oven to crosslink the film. As volume grows, the same booth can anchor a semi-automated cell: add an overhead conveyor to move parts through load, coat, and cure without manual carrying, and step up to a larger coating booth or automatic guns when throughput outpaces hand spraying. It is the booth you start a line with and keep as a second station once you scale.